The Hawaiian gazette., 1887-03-08

while the daughter (she was sixteen
and / seventeep) responded to my
affection. her mother, handsome
woman of forty, chose to fall in love
herself. This was rather a dissgreea-
BILE predicament, for / don't of course,
return the mothers affection bit,
while l was certainly dreadfully
spoony on the daughter, To make a
long story short the girl and l, like
two fools as we were, decided to run
away together, and run away we did
l should have been married if the
mother hadn't run after us. She didn't
object to our being married; but, in
the meantime, she remained with US !;
and managed to make the country
home we had escaped TO, with the IN
ten6on OF settling down there, SO IN
bearable, that, luckily for me as re
CARDS my future, l contrived TO get
away, and went rs fast as l could on
board my ship for refuge, never land
ing again during our stay at Buenos
AyreS. Fortunately, shortly after
wards we were ordered away, and SO
ended my first love affair. / shall
never forget the melancholy, woe-be-
gone faces of my captain and brother
officers ON our reassembling on board.
1t was really most ludricrous. How
ever, q sea voyage, which included
several sharp gales of winds, soon
erased all sad memories; things gradu-
ally frightened and ere many weeks
had passed all on board 81. NJ. s.
resumed their usual appearance"
HORRORS OF THE SLAVE TRADE.
The great interest of Hobart's South
American "reminiscences is in the
graphic descriptions of the horrors
of the slave trade. Our vessels stood
off and on the coast 10 intercept and
seize the slaves. Most Of the business
men of Rio were interested in the in
famous traffic: spies Of the slave mer-
chants swarmed in the city; and there
were hired bravoes skulkng in the
streets, commissioned 10 assassinate
Objectionable officers. Young Hobart
had made himself notorious by his
zeal, which recommended him 10 the
confidence Of his captain. 1t was the
practice to detach parties in boats
while the ship cruised for some days
in the opposite direction. and Hobart
was repeatedly in command of one Of
these fiotillas. The crew were dressed
SIS fishermen and the bosts disguised
as fishing crafts, so that the slavers,
In spite Of signal fires on shore. were
were not unfreQuently surprised. On
bosrd one Of the vessels which he
seized there were no fewer than 400
negroes, and what 8 sight 1t was ? "
"0n opening the hold, we saw mass
ST arms, legs, and bodies, all crushed
together Many of the bodies to
which these limbs belonged were dead
or dying. In fact, when we had made
some sort Of clearance among them,
We found in that fearful hold eleven
dead bodies lying among the living
freight. Water . water was the
cry Many Of them Is soon as free
jumped into the sea, partly from the
delirous state they were IN. partly be
cause they had been told that If taken
by the English they would be tor
tured and eaten" Children We're con
stantly being born on board and an
unfortunate creature was delivered
Of s child close 10 where I was stand
ing. jumped into the sea, baby and
all" 1t was q common practice with
those reckless slave captains, when
hard pressed. TO toss the negroes over
board one by one, in the hope that the
men-of-war IN simple humanity might
slscken speed TO pick them up. Even
when there was swift passage from
the slave coast with no Interruptions,
the hspless cargo was always prey to
fever. ophthalmia and scute darrhes.